GHSA-ghfh-p92w-j4mgMediumCVSS 6.5

Elasticsearch-grok Potential Node Crash due to Large Recursion in `innerForbidCircularReferences` Function

Published
April 8, 2025
Last Modified
September 25, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, where a large recursion using the innerForbidCircularReferences function of the PatternBank class could cause the Elasticsearch node to crash.

A successful attack requires a malicious user to have read_pipeline Elasticsearch cluster privilege assigned to them.

🎯 Affected products1

  • maven/org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok:>= 7.17.0, < 8.15.1

🔗 References (5)